your first herp...

[leogirl]

what was it and how old was you?

i got my first leo when i was 18 (almost 3 years ago) it was a present from my gf for our first year anniversary

[Athravan]

Corn snake, I was 12.. and I annoyed my mother until she gave in

[stephenie191]

mine was a corn snake, guss, still ogt him. I was 13 and i got him on the day of my birthday

[Ssthisto]

My first "herp" was a Tiger Salamander, WC where my dad worked, brought home to live in our garden - I must have been two or three at the time.

My first indoor herps were a WC Collared Lizard, Charlie Joe (I was three, and he stayed with us for a month or so before being returned to his locality) and a tank with a Rough-Skinned Newt and a Firebelly Newt. I think we may have had another rough-skinned (The one I remember was "Itch" but I'm sure there was a "Scratch") - the firebelly was a female called Lava, and we later got a male who was called Fireball (and they bred, though we didn't manage to raise any of the babies).

[KenMan]

I was 10 and I got a cornsnake

[DeanThorpe]

I was 14 [12 years ago] and bought a green anole, a brown anole and what i was told was a nocturnal anole..which im 100% sure now was in fact a gecko lol.. have none of them now as my mother had enough of the crickets jumpin around the house and i gave them back to the shop a little later.

[HABU]

i think 11 or 12. a garter snake i caught. fed it and still have the skin. (SHED!)

[Blazey]

I was 16, boyfriend got ripped off buying me an ill baby waterdragon for xmas from a pet shop i eventually ended up working at an helping them out. Waterdragon died, I cried, buried him in my front garden.
I dont work at the shop now though, I got made redundant, made a few changes to their husbandry at least though but they still make mistakes that annoy me so i dont go in anymore.

[eddygecko]

When i was either 9 or 10 i got a pair of leos They were wiggle and spot. They turned out both to be male so i swapped spot at the shop for a female who i called spotty She had 5 babys in her first year then stopped breeding. I never knew why. She died last year tho Now have a new female called amber

[Fangio]

Originally Posted by Athravan

Corn snake, I was 12.. and I annoyed my mother until she gave in

Hehe me too! Corn snake at 16. I asked my mum every day for a couple of years, started off once a day and moved up to often as I could. In the end my dad said "bloody hell just let him have one". Persistance always pays off!